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wgPicasa

Introduction

The wgPicasa extension is a very simple and powerful component to show your albums installed at Google Picasa Web Gallery (Google PLUS). No costs for hosting and easy in use. It is installed with the very popular "Light-box Slide Gallery.

Well I used this extension for a Social Integration Sports School on my country and it was really, really hard to find out and extension that work as advertised #IfYouKnowWhatImean, this one is Simple, useful, and parameter friendly. After looking through 5 other extensions non-commercial and commercials, I found out that this is the best way to start with… a functional and easy to install Extension that actually works!

I tried wgPicasa (non-commercial version) for 1.5 and was up and running in 15 minutes with a minimum of fuss. You just have to find your Picasa account ID and that is all. The options are enough for my needs. Exactly what I was looking for. There are no links or “made my” or anything else visible on the website. Very good.

This extension is said to be Non-Commercial for 1.6 version, however when you go to the site to download it, you have to pay. The version for 1.5 is non commercial and has its own Joomla extension line item. This one however cost 5 Euros. I'm not against buying extensions. I am against false advertising to draw readers.

Owner's reply:
Also the joomla 1.6 version is freel of costs and has always been free??

You can not limit the number of characters in photo caption, so you could end up with a very ugly gallery regardless of CSS, only other option is to completely disable caption which leaves you with photos and no description.

This extension does what it says it does, clean and simple. I had a couple of questions during configuration and I received very quick responses through their forum. It is so great to get quick support, especially from a free extension.